Backlink outreach agent

Earn links from the pages AI already trusts

Every AI answer cites specific pages. We find the ones that name your rivals but not you, work out who can edit each, and write the pitch in your voice. You send it from your own inbox — then we fetch the page to prove the link is really there.

We can’t send email, by design. Every draft is copied into your own inbox and sent by you.

A page AI citesNot a scraped domain list

“10 Best SEO Automation Tools”

thestacc.com

  • Cited for your prompts
  • Quality score86
  • Domain rating56

It lists two of your rivals and not you — and there’s a slot you could fill.

A pitch, written for youTo the person who can edit it
To
Sarah Chen · Content Manager
Subject
Consider SEOLadders for your automation list

Hi Sarah — your piece on automated SEO tools is the one I keep seeing quoted. You cover Semrush and Ahrefs well; the gap is tools that actually write and publish, which is where we sit.

CopyOpen in your email

There is no send button. You send it, from your own address.

Proof it’s liveWe fetch the page ourselves
<a href="seoladders.com"
   rel="dofollow">SEOLadders</a>
  • AnchorSEOLadders
  • Passes authoritydofollow
  • StatusStill live

The only number here you didn’t report to us. Re-checked for weeks after, so a link that quietly disappears still shows up.

The problem

Link building fails in execution, not strategy

Everyone knows which pages they want to be on. The work falls apart in the hundred small steps between knowing and getting there.

Sending to everyone

A scraped list of a thousand domains, the same email to all of them. Reply rates fall through the floor and your sending domain takes the damage — for links that mostly wouldn't have helped anyway.

Reaching the wrong person

info@ goes nowhere. So does a support rep, or a salesperson, or anyone who can't edit the page. The pitch was fine; it just landed with someone who has no power to say yes.

Chasing links that do nothing

A link from an untrusted site doesn't move rankings, and one from a site that sells placements can actively earn you a penalty. Volume feels like progress right up until it isn't.

Automating the judgement away

Fully automatic outreach sends more email, not better email. One bad prompt goes out four hundred times in your name, and the domain it burns is yours.

From an AI mention to a link you can prove

Nine steps, every one of them shown to you. No black box, no automatic sending, no link you have to take our word for.

Citation analysis

Start from the pages AI actually cites

We run your prompts across the assistants your buyers use and capture every page they quote. That's the target list — not a scraped index of domains, but the specific pages already sitting inside the answers you want to be in.

Prompts your buyers ask

best SEO automation tools7
Semrush alternatives for agencies5
how to automate SEO reporting4

228 pages cited across your prompts · 95 filtered out

Source classification

Every source sorted by how you'd actually win it

A listicle needs an email to its editor. A Reddit thread needs a genuinely useful reply. A G2 listing needs a claimed profile. A competitor's own page needs neither — you can't earn a link there, so it becomes intelligence instead of a task.

Publishers

Editors and authors you can pitch

Social & forums

Live threads on Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn

Review sites

Comparison tables and lists

Competitors — filtered out

You can't earn a link on a rival's own site, so they're never a target here. They show up under AI Visibility instead, as who AI quotes instead of you.

Authority & quality

Judged on whether the link would help you

Every source gets a score with a reason you can argue with. We weight how often AI cited it for your prompts above raw domain authority — a DR 40 page quoted nine times beats a DR 80 page quoted once. Sites selling placements are refused outright.

10 Best Automated SEO ToolsStrong · 86

Cited 7× · a list you can be added to

SEO news roundup — MarchWeak · 41

Cited once · nobody edits old news

guestpostz.com/write-for-usSkip · 12

Sells links — paid placements advertised

Contact discovery

The person who can edit that exact page

Not info@. We start on the page you're pitching and read its byline, follow that author's own profile, then map the site to find the team and write-for-us pages that actually exist — ranking editors above anyone who'd have to ask permission. When a site publishes no address at all, a contact database is the last resort, and only for someone we've already confirmed works there. We never assemble an address from a name and a domain.

Who can edit this page?

The page you want a link onbyline: Sarah Chen
Her author pagesarah@thestacc.com
Homepage & contact pageonly hello@ — a shared inbox

Confidence 95 — published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.

Intent mapping

The right page of yours to send them to

We match the topic of their page against your published pages and pick the one that genuinely fits. When nothing matches well it asks for your homepage instead of forcing a deep link — a bad one is the fastest way to read as automated.

Their page

10 Best Automated SEO Tools

Listicle

Point the link at

/features

matched on topic

Legal, login and utility pages are never suggested — and if nothing matches closely, it asks for your homepage rather than inventing a fit.

Personalized outreach

Written about their page, in your voice

Each pitch references what that specific article covers and names the gap honestly — which competitors it lists, and why you belong beside them. Set your tone, your sign-off, and what you can offer in return once, and every draft inherits it.

SCSarah ChenContent Manager · thestacc.com

Consider SEOLadders for your automation list

Hi Sarah,

I read your piece on automated SEO tools — the point about disconnected reporting is exactly the problem we built for.

You list Semrush and Ahrefs but not us, and we'd fit the solo-founder end of that list.

Your toneNames the real gapNo template
Weekly cadence

Five a week, not five hundred

Your first batch lands the moment onboarding finishes; after that it's every Monday. We find contacts and write the pitches for the five prospects AI cited most, because outreach works when each email is worth reading and five personal pitches is roughly what one person can actually send and follow up on. If last week's are still unsent, we hold off rather than pile more on top.

Who can edit this page?

The page you want a link onbyline: Sarah Chen
Her author pagesarah@thestacc.com
Homepage & contact pageonly hello@ — a shared inbox

Confidence 95 — published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.

Inbox & approval

You approve everything, and nothing goes stale

Ready, Sent and Replied read like an inbox. Sent leads with whatever's been silent longest, and after five quiet days offers a follow-up that references your first email — capped at two, permanently. You send every one of them yourself; nothing leaves our system in your name, because nothing leaves our system at all.

7Ready
39Sent
6Replied

3 have gone quiet for 6 days

Follow-ups drafted and ready. Capped at two — a third email costs you the next campaign, not this one.

Link verification

Proof the link is really there

We fetch the pages you pitched and look for a live link back, recording the anchor text and whether it passes authority. Pages you're waiting on are re-checked daily; confirmed links are re-checked every few weeks, so one that quietly disappears months later still surfaces. This is the only number here that isn't self-reported.

We fetch the page and look

thestacc.comLive
marketermilk.comLive · nofollow
onelittleweb.comNot found yet
Outcome tracking

It learns which targets are worth your time

Conversion by page type, authority band and the role of the person you reached — measured from verified links, never from what was marked won. Nothing is reported until a segment has enough sends to mean something.

Links earned, by page type

Alternatives22%
Listicle14%
Guide6%
News1%

Alternatives pages convert 3× better than guides — so discovery starts weighting toward them.

The workspace

An inbox, not a spreadsheet of domains

Ready, Sent and Replied — each one telling you the single next thing to do. The draft is already written when you open it.

The Ready queue in SEOLadders: a drafted pitch for a page AI cited, the prompts it was cited for, and the buttons to copy it or open it in your own email client.

Ready

Five fresh pitches every Monday, contacts found and drafts written, for the prospects AI cited most. Each shows the prompts that page was cited for, so you can see why it's worth asking before you spend a word on it.

Sent

What you told us you sent — sorted by whatever has been quiet longest. After five silent days it offers a follow-up that references your first email, and stops after two.

Replied

Threads that came back, plus the links we've since found on the page ourselves. A target you marked won stays unverified until we actually see the link.

Comparison

Fewer emails, better ones

Against the two ways this normally gets done — a mass-send tool, or an afternoon a week by hand.

What mattersSEOLaddersMass toolsBy hand
Targets come from real AI answersNot a scraped domain index
Quality scored before you spend effortWith a reason you can disagree with
Finds the person who can edit the pageByline and author page, not info@
Pitch written about that specific pageIn a voice you set once
You are the one who sends itNot approval — there's no send button here
Follow-ups capped and trackedTwo, then it stops
Links verified on the page afterwardsAnchor text and rel recorded
Learns which targets convert for youFrom verified links, not from claims
Sends the emails for youWe draft; you press send from your own inbox

The last row is the honest trade. We don’t send for you — sending on your behalf needs an inbox connection and a compliance regime that costs more than it earns you right now, and an agent with a send button is one bad prompt from burning your domain.

We can't send email at all

Not "we won't" — there is no send button in the product. Every pitch, reply and follow-up is copied into your own inbox and sent by you. Follow-ups stop at two, permanently.

Real sources, and real contacts

Targets come from pages AI actually cited for your prompts. Contacts are either published somewhere we can link you to, or returned already verified by a contact database — never assembled from a name and a domain. If we can't find one, the row says so.

Proof, not claims

We fetch the pages you pitched and look for your link, then keep re-checking for weeks afterwards. Anything you marked won but we haven't confirmed is reported as unverified, not as a win.

Link building, answered.

Where the targets come from, why we never send anything, and how you know a link is real.

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No — and it can't. There is no send button anywhere in the product. Every pitch, follow-up and reply is written for you to copy, or to open in your own mail client, and it goes from your address rather than ours. An agent with a send button is one bad prompt away from emailing four hundred people in your name, and the domain that burns would be yours.

Your move

Rank on Google. Get cited by AI.
On autopilot.

Connect your site once and the work runs in the background — we find the topics, build the content and authority behind them, then track where you land on Google and how often AI platforms recommend you.

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